Cotton's Importance
-equally important to the North and South
-North shipped it, used it to buy manufactured goods in Britain and sold them to north AND south - south foots shipping bill
-South could easily obtain alliance with Britain because of trade importance
-one crop economy - one problem=economic destruction
Southern Aristocracy:
-republic=everyone has a say in government
-south= money to support government was from plantations,the few large farmers had a huge influence on all of the south, work towards the good of the wealthy
-strived for a more feudal society
-slavery bonds the southern people together,
-slaves also bonded with the whites - constant interaction within their families, but whites still detested the race itself
Slaves Fighting the System:
-Nat Turner's rebellion
-The Amistad
Free Soil Party = huge advocate of abolition
Infringment of 1st Amendment Rights:
-DID NOT solidify rights
-South restricted pro-abolition mail and other press (newspapers, etc.)
3/3/10
Period 3
South wanted Nicaragua to balance legislation in the Senate
Cuba was also an option
Cuba would have been beneficial for sugar and ports
Japan- Commodore Perry
-Allowed trade between Japan and USA
-Large influx in Asian population in California
-Japan was in total isolation before the USA arrived
-USA had to show off technological advances to open up trade. ex. railroad, train, guns
-This leads to a quick Japanese rise in power
Gadson Purchase
-Part of Mexico was purchased for $10 million
-This was used to expand the railroad westward
Kansas-Nebraska Acts
-Missouri compromise is no longer applicable due to this
-States decide weather to become free or slave states
-Stephen Douglas wanted this to pass because personally owned railroad stock and land.
-He wanted to provide a way to balance the North and the South in an economic sense
-The bill does pass
-North did not like it because of the formation of the Republican party
-South liked it because they thought Kansas could become a slave state
Chapter 16
Cotton's Importance
-equally important to the North and South
-North shipped it, used it to buy manufactured goods in Britain and sold them to north AND south - south foots shipping bill
-South could easily obtain alliance with Britain because of trade importance
-one crop economy - one problem=economic destruction
Southern Aristocracy:
-republic=everyone has a say in government
-south= money to support government was from plantations,the few large farmers had a huge influence on all of the south, work towards the good of the wealthy
-strived for a more feudal society
-slavery bonds the southern people together,
-slaves also bonded with the whites - constant interaction within their families, but whites still detested the race itself
Slaves Fighting the System:
-Nat Turner's rebellion
-The Amistad
Free Soil Party = huge advocate of abolition
Infringment of 1st Amendment Rights:
-DID NOT solidify rights
-South restricted pro-abolition mail and other press (newspapers, etc.)
3/3/10
Period 3
South wanted Nicaragua to balance legislation in the Senate
Cuba was also an option
Cuba would have been beneficial for sugar and ports
Japan- Commodore Perry
-Allowed trade between Japan and USA
-Large influx in Asian population in California
-Japan was in total isolation before the USA arrived
-USA had to show off technological advances to open up trade. ex. railroad, train, guns
-This leads to a quick Japanese rise in power
Gadson Purchase
-Part of Mexico was purchased for $10 million
-This was used to expand the railroad westward
Kansas-Nebraska Acts
-Missouri compromise is no longer applicable due to this
-States decide weather to become free or slave states
-Stephen Douglas wanted this to pass because personally owned railroad stock and land.
-He wanted to provide a way to balance the North and the South in an economic sense
-The bill does pass
-North did not like it because of the formation of the Republican party
-South liked it because they thought Kansas could become a slave state
Civil War is passed by Congress